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Re: Not about business models



At 3:57 PM -0600 12/11/96, Roger A. Pruitt wrote:
(I can think of producing the best particle physicists in the world, but if
there is limited demand for particle physicists then we are not doing our
job.)

A misreading of one of my previous postings implied that I was advocating
that governors and others outside the academy should dictate what we teach.
No so, and I hope that I have made my point more clearly this time. I
believe that our product are well educated students, and that the customers
for our product are the many places were they can further their education
and seek employment.

I'm still uncomfortable with this model as it implies that our purpose is
training instead of education.

Larry

P.S. Maybe the ivory tower is more real than the real world is.